Straw-stacker



[No Model.)

W. A. HINKLE.

STRAW STAGKEB.

No. 603,040. Patented Apr. 26, 1898.

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WILLIAM A. HINKLE, OF FORSYTH, ILLINOIS.

STRAW-STACKER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 603,040, dated April 26, 1898.

Application filed April 14., 1894.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM A. HINKLE, of Forsyth, in the county of Macon and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Straw-Smokers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to means for shortening and lengthening extensible tubes of pneumatic straw-stackers and to other means for swinging the hoods of such stackers from side to side, the object being in the first instance to deposit the straw at different distances from the thresher without losing control of the straw and in the other instance to discharge the straw laterally at different angles in order that it may be properly distributed.

The invention is embodied in the drawings and specification of this application, and it is defined in the appended claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the tube, the rear end of a thresher, and certain features that coact with the specified invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the tube, taken on line X in Fig. 3; and Fig. 3 is a plan of said tube.

The tube is composed of at least two sections, as 5 and 6, one of which is outside of and adapted to slide longitudinally on the inner. The inner section is swung on a horizontal pivot, as 2, which is carried on a turntable, and its inner end fits over the strawdischarging spout of the thresher. Tracks or ways 1 are also swung on pivot 2 or from some adjacent bearing, and they extend along the tube on opposite sides thereof and are connected at their outer ends by bail 3. A guyline 4 extends from the bail to a support above the rear end of the thresher and provides means for elevating and lowering the free end of the track and for sustaining it in any desired position. On each side of the'outer end of the tube is fastened a rack 13, and such racks extend rearward from the outer section and rest on the rails of the track. Brackets 15 extend upward from the rails at points about midway of the length of the extended tube, and they provide bearings for shaft 18. Pinions 14 are fastened to the shaft above and in mesh with the teeth of the rack, and sprocket-wheel 16 is also fixed on the shaft at Serial No. 507,504. (No model.)

or near the center thereof. Chain 17 runs over the sprocket-wheel and extends back to the vicinity of the thresher, as shown, or otherwise, where it is accessible to the operator of the machine. By turning the shaft in one direction the pinions will move the racks along the rails, carrying the outer section outward, and thereby extending the tube, and the reverse operation will of course result from turning the shaft in the opposite direction.

The hood 7 is journaled on the outer end of the outer section, and it is provided with pins or other fastenings 8. Pulleys 9 are pivoted on the sides of the outer section at the farther end thereof, and lines 10 and 11 run one over each pulley and connect one with each pin. The relation of the pins to the pulleys is such that a pull on one line draws a pin toward the pulley of the line and rocks the hood in one direction, and a pull on the opposite line will draw the pin toward the opposite pulley and rock the hood in the opposite direction. The lines extend back toward the thresher and terminate at some point from which they may be easily manipulated by the operator.

The use of two tracks is preferable on account of stability; but one will work, and I do not wish to confine myself to two.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination, in a straw-stacker, of a tube composed of a plurality of telescoping sections, a rack-bar on one of the sections, a pinion connected with another section and in mesh with the rack-bar, and means for rotating the pinion, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of a track, a tube composed of two or more sections one telescoping on the other, a rack bar or bars, connected with the outer section and resting on the track, a pinion or pinions meshing with the rack bar or bars, and means for rotating the pinions in either direction, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I sign my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM A. HINKLE.

Attest:

D. D. HILL,

L. P. GRAHAM. 

